Hydrazines rearrangement

The hydrazine rearrangement was the first known anionic rearrangement of organosilicon compounds and has been studied more thoroughly than any other. A previous review, now somewhat out-of-date (24), covered the early experimental results on this reaction. 

The kinetic studies of the catalyzed hydrazine rearrangement show that the migration of silicon in the anion must be quite rapid, but give no data on the actual rate of anionic rearrangement. Information about this rate is, however, available from proton magnetic resonance spectros-... 

It is possible now to compare the migration rates of trimethylsilyl and phenyl groups in the hydrazine rearrangement. Because no rearrangement of the monoanion of A,A-diphenylhydrazine was observed at 115°C, the half-time for migration of phenyl under these conditions must be at least 10 seconds. The half-time for migration of RsSi in silylhydra-... 

Phthalic anhydride and diethyl phthalate are easily converted with hydrazine into 4-hydroxyphthalazin-l(2/f)-one. Its substituted derivatives have been prepared using substituted hydrazines, substituted phthalic anhydrides, or diesters or disodium salts of substituted phthalic acids (Scheme 81). However, condensation of phenylhydrazine with phthalic anhydride gives only a small amount of the corresponding phthalazine, the main product being 2-anilinophthalimide. This can be rearranged in the presence of base into the phthalazine derivative. For the preparation of 2,3-disubstituted derivatives, 1,2-disub-stituted hydrazines are reacted with the appropriate phthalic anhydrides or phthaloyl chlorides. Derivatives of 4-amino- or 4-hydrazino-phthalazin-l(2iT)-one have been prepared either from the corresponding monothiophthalimide and 3-aminoisoindolin-3-one (1S4) or from ethyl 2-cyanobenzoate (155) and hydrazine hydrate (Scheme 82). Similarly,... 

Pyridazines are formed from pyrones or their thioxo analogs or from appropriate pyridones. Pyrones or pyridones react with diazonium salts to give the corresponding hydrazones (187) and (188) which are rearranged under the influence of acid or base into pyridazinones as shown in Scheme 107. On the other hand, kojic acid is transformed with hydrazine into a 1,4-dihydropyridazine and a pyrazole derivative. 4H-Pyran-4-thiones... 

While the use of substituted hydrazine derivatives is generally recognized to be the most reliable method for dehydrobromination of bromo ketones without rearrangement, this side reaction can be important in some cases. Both the 2-bromo-A" -3-ketone and its 4-bromo isomer give the same A" -diene hydrazone (33), °° which is cleaved to the ketone in very poor yield (however, see ref. 65 for a successful use of the semicarbazide method). 

Nucleophiles like alcohols [2, S], hydrogen sulfide [2], thiols [2,10], ammonia, amines, hydrazines, hydroxylamines [2 11, 12, 13, 14, 75], azides [2], other pseudohalides [2], phosphonates [2,16,17,18,19, 20], and phosphanes [2,19] add rapidly across the CO or CN double bond to yield stable adducts The phosphonate adduets undergo a subsequent aleohol—lester rearrangement [19, 20] (equation 2)... 

A number of reaction pathways have been proposed for the Fischer indolization reaction. The mechanism proposed by Robinson and Robinson in 1918, which was extended by Allen and Wilson in 1943 and interpreted in light of modem electronic theory by Carlin and Fischer in 1948 is now generally accepted. The mechanism consists of three stages (I) hydrazone-ene-hydrazine equilibrium (II) formation of the new C-C bond via a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement (III) generation of the indole nucleus by loss of... 

Under acidic conditions, the first step involves protonation of the imine nitrogen followed by tautomerization to form an ene-hydrazine intermediate (7). After the tautomerization, a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement occurs, which provides intermediate 8. Rearomatization then occurs via a proton shift to form the imine 9 which cyclizes to form the 5-membered ring 10. Finally, loss of ammonia from 11 generates the indole nucleus in 12. 

It has been proposed that protonation or complex formation at the 2-nitrogen atom of 14 would enhance the polarization of the r,6 -7i system and facilitate the rearrangement leading to new C-C bond formation. The equilibrium between the arylhydrazone and its ene-hydrazine tautomer is continuously promoted to the right by the irreversible rearomatization in stage II of the process. The indolization of arylhydrazones on heating in the presence of (or absence of) solvent under non-catalytic conditions can be rationalized by the formation of the transient intermediate 14 (R = H). Under these thermal conditions, the equilibrium is continuously pushed to the right in favor of indole formation. Some commonly used catalysts in this process are summarized in Table 3.4.1. 

Hydrazobenzene 1 (1,2-diphenyl hydrazine) is converted to benzidine 2 (4,4 -diaminobiphenyl) under acidic conditions.This unusual reaction is called the benzidine rearrangement, and can be observed with substituted diphenyl hydrazines as well. 

A mechanism, that has been proposed by G. M. Robinson and R. Robinson, consists of three steps. Initially the phenyl hydrazone 1 undergoes a reversible rearrangement to give the reactive ene-hydrazine 3 ... 

According to REM, hydrazine hydrate Is reacted with 2 mols of ammonium thiocyanate to produce 1,2-bislthlocarbamoyl) hydrazine which by loss of ammonia and rearrangement produces 5-amino-2-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole. That compound is acetyied with acetic anhydride. 

Another dihydro derivative has been described in connection with medicinal chemical studies. Thus, reaction of 2-(chloromethyl)quinazoline-3-oxide (3) with hydrazine gives hydr-oxytriazocinamine 4 (and not a diazepine derivative as originally assigned), vigorous acetylation of which results in a rearrangement to give oxazolotriazocine 5.10... 

Regarding the series of hetero aromatic pentacyclic compounds with three heteroatoms, an accelerated synthesis of 3,5-disubstituted 4-amino-1,2,4-triazoles 66 under microwave irradiation has been reported by thermic rearrangement of dihydro-1,2,4,5 tetrazine 65 (Scheme 22). This product was obtained by reaction of aromatic nitriles with hydrazine under microwave irradiation [53]. The main limitation of the method is that exclusively symmetrically 3,5-disubstituted (aromatic) triazoles can be obtained. 

Condensation of phenylalaninenitrile, prepared from phenyl acetaldehyde, with 1-oxime of pyruvaldehyde afforded the pyrazine N-oxide, which was further rearranged to give the N-acetyl pyrazinone. The acetyl groups were removed by treatment with hydrazine to give the target 6-aminopyrazinone. 

As shown in Scheme 4.3, the Fisher indolization was thought to involve (i) hydrolysis of diethyl dimethylamino acetal 11, (ii) formation ofhydrazone 22, (iii) isomerization ofhydrazone to me-hydrazine 23, and (iv) [3.3] sigmatropic rearrangement followed by ring closure to give indole 16b. Acetal 11 is stable in AcOH at room temperature, but can be readily hydrolyzed to aldehyde 19 at 100 °C, with subsequent cyclization to hemiaminal 20. Hemiaminal 20 was also formed readily... 

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